Category: Florida citrus

The European Union has dropped its requirement that U.S. citrus groves be surveyed for citrus canker, a move expected to save Florida growers and other U.S. citrus growers an estimated $5.6 million a year.

Florida’s orange crop continues to be decimated by greening disease, and Thursday, federal forecasters dropped the orange production estimate for the 2017-18 season by 3 million boxes from last month’s estimate.

Florida’s signature crop, the orange, continues to be battered by greening disease, and the federal government’s first forecast of the 2016-17 is a bleak one. It’s shaping up to be worse than last season’s when …

A long-awaited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency preliminary honey bee risk assessment for imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides linked to severely declining honey bee populations, confirms harmful residues of the chemical in crops …